氢技术高管因 HYDRO 价格操纵而入狱

首席执行官迈克尔·凯恩(Michael Kane)和金融工程主管肖恩·汉普顿(Shane Hampton)总共被判处六年多监禁。

Two Hydrogen Technology executives were sentenced to jail for defrauding investors by manipulating the price of the HYDRO token, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday.

美国司法部周二表示，两名 Hydrogen Technology 高管因操纵 HYDRO 代币价格欺骗投资者而被判入狱。

CEO Michael Kane, 39, was sentenced to three years and nine months and 32-year-old Shane Hampton, the company's head of financial engineering, was sentenced to two years and 11 months, according to a DOJ statement.

根据美国司法部的一份声明，39 岁的首席执行官迈克尔·凯恩 (Michael Kane) 被判处三年零九个月监禁，公司金融工程主管 32 岁的肖恩·汉普顿 (Shane Hampton) 被判处两年零 11 个月监禁。

The two enlisted a South African company called Moonwalkers Trading to manipulate the HYDRO price on an unidentified U.S.-based crypto exchange using a bot to place some $7 million of so-called wash trades and $300 million worth of spoof trades between October 2018 and April 2019, the DOJ said. The actions enabled them to make $2 million in profits from selling HYDRO at inflated prices.

两人招募了一家名为 Moonwalkers Trading 的南非公司，利用机器人在 2018 年 10 月至 2019 年 4 月期间进行了约 700 万美元的所谓洗盘交易和价值 3 亿美元的欺骗交易，操纵一家身份不明的美国加密货币交易所的 HYDRO 价格。 ，司法部说。这些行动使他们能够通过以高价出售 HYDRO 赚取 200 万美元的利润。

Kane, from Miami Beach, pleaded guilty in November 2023 to wire fraud and committing securities price manipulation. Hampton, from Philadelphia, was convicted on Feb. 7 of conspiracy to commit securities price manipulation and wire fraud.

来自迈阿密海滩的凯恩于 2023 年 11 月承认犯有电汇欺诈和证券价格操纵罪。来自费城的汉普顿于 2 月 7 日被判串谋操纵证券价格和电汇欺诈罪。

"In this case, for the first time, a jury in a federal criminal trial found that a cryptocurrency was a security and that manipulating cryptocurrency prices was securities fraud," Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, said in the press release

“在本案中，联邦刑事审判中的陪审团首次认定加密货币是一种证券，而操纵加密货币价格属于证券欺诈，”司法部刑事司司长 Nicole M. Argentieri 在法庭上表示。新闻稿

Last year, Hydrogen Technology was fined just under $2.8 million and Kane $260,206 by the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York for violating securities law in a case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

去年，在美国证券交易委员会提起的诉讼中，Hydrogen Technology 因违反证券法而被纽约南区美国地方法院罚款近 280 万美元和 Kane 260,206 美元。

Two other co-conspirators, Andrew Chorlian and Tyler Ostern, pleaded guilty in May 2023 to securities price manipulation and wire fraud charges and have already been sentenced, the press release said.

新闻稿称，另外两名同谋安德鲁·乔利安 (Andrew Chorlian) 和泰勒·奥斯特恩 (Tyler Ostern) 于 2023 年 5 月承认操纵证券价格和电汇欺诈指控，并已被判刑。